Self Harm Factsheet for Teachers and Lecturers

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This factsheet outlines warning signs and indications of self-injury and as education professionals, how to manage a situation when you discover a pupil or student is self-injuring

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Therapeutic Expressive Arts Group (TEA)
Self Injury Through Time Theatre Group (SITT)

An unexpected group of strangers come together one evening; to discuss the one thing they all have in common. Through sharing their own experiences and hearing each other’s, they begin to question the perception they’ve always held about self-injury and ask themselves “Am I Worthy?”
Self Injury Through Time (SITT)
Peer Support Services

Self Injury Support's Peer Services offer non-medical, non-judgmental support from people with their own experience of self-harm.

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Casual Sex As Self Harm

For months I would go to the areas of town where lone women were told not to go. I would purposely go to the places and do the things that I knew were putting me at risk. I fooled myself into thinking I was in control, that it was a calculated risk. I wasn't finding people on a dating app, I wasn't going on blind dates or finding people through mutual friends. I was going to the bars that people would advise me to avoid and actively looking for a one night stand.
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